I closed my book, somehow resisting the urge to write more because I know if I starts writing then I won't be able to stop, even if it makes no sense. I kept my book inside my bag and went out of my room and to the living room with my phone. I sat on the sofa and clicked the home button of my phone, revealing the picture of my mom, smiling brightly as she held on to my dad's arm. I smiled at the picture and clicked on to Joogle to search the anime Jenny told me about. The characters looked really different from how I imagined them and I started watching the first episode of that anime.

An hour and a half passed on quickly and I found the story interesting and cool that I didn't taking my eyes off the screen. When I heard the doorbell, I kept my phone aside and went over to the door and opened it with a smile.

"Hey dad," I said to the tired man who was in his late 40s who was at the doorstep. He had black hair with a lot of grey strands, really dull, grey eyes under which dark circles were present and short white hairs on his cheek from not shaving.

He had his head hung low and entered the house without a word.

"Want me to get you something to eat?" I asked.

"Yeah," the tired man said in a low voice as he laid down on the couch.

"Okay," I said said, walking over to kitchen.

I heated up the spaghetti I had made earlier, served it on a plate, placed a fork and went over to dad, who was already sleeping on the couch.

"Dad," I said, softly as I shook him gently to wake him up. "Hey. Wake up."

He groaned and let out a long yawn. "What?" he asked.

"Eat it before it gets cold, okay?" I said, smiling at him as I gave him the plate.

"Yeah," he said, sleepily as he began to eat the spaghetti slowly.

I went over to his bedroom drawer and took one of his blood pressure pills and went over to him. He fell asleep again with the spaghetti hanging from his mouth. I shook my head and let out a sigh. Poor guy. I kept the pill on the table before going to the kitchen to fetch a glass of water for his pill.

"Dad," I said, patting his shoulder. "At least eat your pill." He woke up again and swallowed the spaghetti in his mouth, staring angrily at the floor. I took his plate and watched him swallow his pill. "You can go to bed. I'll clean these up."

"Thanks, Ashton," he mumbled, giving me a weak smile.

I watched my dad walk away to his room and I took the empty glass with my other hand and went to the kitchen. I covered the uneaten spaghetti with another plate and kept it in the fridge, knowing that dad would heat it up and eat it later and wash the glass. I went to my room and tried to study the lessons I learned from school and I should say..............

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO STUDY?!!

I frowned at the ceiling and pouted. I guess watching anime instead of studying today won't cause me any problem. I went to the living room and continued watching the anime from where I left off.

♡♡♡♡♡

The next day, I saw Will's car outside my house and for some unknown reason, he wasn't using the car horn. I took my bag and went over and sat on the passenger seat. Will had his emerald eyes to the rearview mirror he tried to clip all of his long side banged hair away from his eyes.

"Hey," I greeted him.

"Hmm," Will hummed.

I watched him clip his hair aside and I felt this tiny urge to touch his hair. It's so long, blond and mostly, soft. The style really suits his face and I'm kinda jealous though. I feel like my hair doesn't suit my face.

"Why're you staring, a*shole?" Will asked, angrily, his hair clipped revealing his left eye.

"Sorry. I just find your hair cool, that's all," I said, looking away, knowing that me looking at his hair made him uncomfortable.

"You trying to kiss my a$* or something?" Will asked, glaring at me.

"Can't a person compliment?" I said.

"Oh thanks, man," Will said, after a whil as he smiled brightly. I guess he can smile too, huh? "I had it fixed few weeks ago."

"Really? It suits you," I said, smiling back.

"Not being rude but you look sh*tty with that hairstyle."

"I know. I don't care about it anyways," I said, shrugging.

"I think I can help you fix that," he said, starting the car.

"No, it's fine," I said, trying to decline his offer.

"Do you wanna remain ugly like the a*#hole you are, or do you want me to help you?" Will said in his usual angry tone.

Is he trying to be nice to me?

"Uh..... the ugly a*^hole I am?" I said.

"Okay, then. Your loss," he said.

Will began driving and he stopped in front of Jenny's house. "Ya mind?" he asked me with an annoyed look. I didn't understand what he meant but I shook my head. "Good."

He began to honk the car horn loudly and continuously, making me regret what I did a while ago.

"Ugh!! Where is that stupid b*tch?!!" Will scowled.

I remained silent and a while later, Jenny came out of her house but that didn't stop Will from what he was doing.

"STOP IT!!" Jenny shouted angrily, as she entered the car. "YOU'RE MELT PEOPLES' BRAINS!!"

"Well, you're melting mine by not coming," Will said, coldly. "How many times do I have to tell you? If you want me to not do my thing, stand outside."

"The dude next door is pervert," Jenny reasoned. "He comes out when I do and winks at me and stuff."

"You just have to tell him to go f*ck himself," he said.

Jenny rolled her eyes and looked at me with a smile. "Hey there. Sorry you had to hear this first thing in the morning," she said.

Will began to drive, ignoring us. "It's all right," I said, smiling. "I saw the anime you told yesterday."

"Really? How was it?" she asked.

"I love it and I should, you're really good at storytelling."

"Gee thanks, Ashton."

"See? Chase is the only good person among all of you," Will said, stopping his car in front of Chase's house. "Unlike you two and Aria, he stands outside and that way I don't have to melt brains."

Chase came over and entered the car with a smile. "Good morning, guys," he said, happily.

"Good morning," Jenny and I said.

"THAT B#TCH!! I'LL KILL HER!!" Will shouted as he honk the car horn again.

Through the side mirrors, I saw Aria coming out of her house as she angrily walked towards the car and sat down.

"LEMME AT 'EM!!!" she shouted trying to get her grip on Will's (awesome) hair.

Jenny and Chase held her down like two zookeepers trying to control a wild, angry animal while Will and I watched them in horror. Damn, that girl's crazy!!

"YOUR HAPPY PLACE!! YOUR HAPPY PLACE!!" Jenny shouted.

Aria settled on her seat, angrily as she glared at Will, who started driving.

"Violist," she muttered in rage.

"B^tch," Will muttered.

"I heard that!!" Aria said.

"I know you're not deaf like that Beethoven of yours, Aria," Will said. That was savage.

"Don't compare me with that legend," she said, angrily. "He was a great guy!!"

"You like classical music?" Chase said, smiling.

"Yep! Do you wanna hear his other songs?" she asked, excitedly.

"Oh boy," Will said, rolling his eyes.

"Sure," I said. I'm not much of a fan but I'm fine with it because of Chase's parents.

"My parents play it everyday so I know some pieces," Chase said, smiling. Like I said.

Aria was fishing out her phone from her bag and search for a song.

"Wait a minute......" Aria said. She sniffed a couple of times and slapped Will's shoulder hardly in anger.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!!" Will shouted. "CAN'T YOU SEE I'M DRIVING?!!"

"What did I tell you about smoking in the car?" Aria asked.

"You smoke?!" Chase asked in shock. "Aren't you under-aged?!"

"No, I'm 18," Will said. "And..... I couldn't help it."

"You could've at least stood outside," Jenny said.

"AS IF YOU STAND OUTSIDE!!" Will shouted angrily.

"I think he has right to smoke in his own car," I said.

"Thank you!!" Will said. "At least someone understands."

"But I don't think you should smoke 'cause it's bad for your health," I added.

"Now that's a good boy right there," Aria said. "Proud of ya, Crawford."

"My life. My choices," Will said. "And besides, I'm not smoking right now or anything."

"Still," Chase said.

"He even drinks too," Aria added.

"CAN YOU SHUT THE F#CK UP?!!" Will shouted.

"I think that's fine," Jenny said.

"I don't," I said.

"Me neither," Aria said. "I hate people who drink and smoke."

"Well, I'm flattered," Will said, sarcastically.

"Not a compliment!!"

"I wanna try drinking," Chase said.

Okay, those were the set of words I never expected to hear coming out of Chase's mouth. I never knew he wanted do things like that, until now.

"Me too," Jenny said, smiling.

"Then kids, I'll take you both to a club or a bar and buy you guys drinks myself, once your old enough, that is," Will said.

"Can't wait," Jenny said.

"I'm gonna play one of Brahms' pieces  now!" Aria said, happily.

"NOOOO!!" Will shouted.

♡♡♡♡♡

Finally!! My most favourite period of all!! Physical Education!! P.E.!! Unlike most people in school, the main reason why I like P.E. is because I sit alone in the Janitors' room and bunk the whole two periods.

I was walking down the corridor, thinking about what to do in the next chapter of my story like I was always do when I go for walks. Just then, a boy who looked like he was my age with sky blue hair ran towards me with a frantic look. I stood in front of me and shook me by holding my shoulders.

"DID YOU SEE HER?!!!" he asked me, panicking.

I noticed the boy had different colours on both eyes. His right eye was yellow while the other was green and it's obvious that he was wearing contacts and his hair was dyed.

"ANSWER ME, BOY!!" he shouted, shaking me again.

"Who are you talking about?!" I asked, taking keeping my distance from him.

"LUPITA!!" he said.

"Who?" I asked, confused.

"My daughter!!"

"YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER?!! BUT YOU'RE...."

"I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!! HAVE YOU SEEN HER?!!"

"No."

"LUPITAAAAAA!!!!" the dude shouted, loudly. "WHERE THE F*CK ARE YOU?!!"

I watched him with a worried look. A guy as young as him, has a daughter? I kinda feel bad for him but what kind of father loses his own kid?

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE!! HELP ME!!" he shouted at me, angrily.

"Er.... uh, what does she look like?" I asked.

"She- LUPITAAA!!! FINALLY!!" he shouted, ignoring me as he ran towards a guy with the same blue hair as him and that guy........ he was holding a duck above his head with a proud look. What the-?

"HOW CAN YOU LOSE OUR DAUGHTER LIKE THAT, YOU A*#HOLE?!!" the guy with the duck said, angrily as he give it to the other guy.

Wait....... are they a couple? I didn't know our school had them!! And also, why are they calling a freaking duck their daughter?

The guy who scolded had two different eye colours too but it was the opposite from the other guy. The right eye was green and left was yellow. They don't look similar though. The guy who spoke to me had a heart shaped face and their guy had a square face.

"Yo! Your name's Ash, right?" The dude with square face asked, pointing at me.

"Ashton, actually. You can call me Ash, if you like," I said, smiling slightly.

"Cool. I'm LJ and he's JL," the dude with the heart shaped face said. "And this is our loving daughter, Lupita."

"Your daughter?" I asked.

"Yep."

"Are you guys a couple or something?"

"Ew, no!!" JL said with a disgusted look. "We're bros, bro."

"Yeah!! Brothers from another mother," LJ added, smirking.

"And father," JL said.

"What's with the duck?" I asked.

"It was all a really tragic story...." JL said, making his voice dramatically deep. Oh boy. I feel a story coming up.

"It was a cold, rainy night and LJ and I were running in the cold streets, without an umbrella. We stood inside a store, shivering because of the cold water on our clothes and also, because of the stupid air conditioning in the store and then....... we saw something beautiful.

It was...... a duck. Its bill orange like the sunset and its feathers, white as snow. It was walking in the rain, cold, alone and shivering frantically. It was shining under the moonlight and it was merely impossible to look away. And then, its sad eyes met our and then......

We adopted her."

I glanced at the duck when I noticed it staring at me. "Woah. That's, uh.... a pretty cool story," I said, faking a smile.

"It is," JL said, smiling. "We can even make a movie out of it. Two bros, raising a duck and that too, in school."

"People going against us. Judging us. Discriminating us and yet, we stay strong and look after the one we love most," LJ said, like he was narrating a story or something.

"Cool. I better go so...." I said, trying to get rid of them.

"What's the rush?" JL put his arm across my shoulder. "Let's get to know each other more, eh?"

"That wouldn't be necessary," I said, feeling uncomfortable.

"Aw... c'mon man. We're really fun people, ya know?" LJ said.

"Quack!!" Lupita quacked.

"See? Even our daughter agrees," JL said.

"You wanna join us or not?" LJ asked, caressing his daughter's feathery back.

I guess getting to know these weird dudes won't hurt.

"Sure," I said, giving them a smile.

-To be continued-

Chase Clemence